🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

On this episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ talk about topics near and dear to every network engineer’s heart–documentation, legacy, and tech debt. What should our philosophy of documentation be? What are legacy, end of life, and tech debt, really?

Out of band management networks were once more common than they are today. Should we go back to building out of band management networks? Should out of band management networks be virtual or physical? How can we sell out of band management networks to the folks paying the bills?

When most people think of segment routing (SR), they think of SRv6–using IPv6 addresses as segment IDs, and breaking the least significant /64 to create microsids for service differentiation. This is not, however, the only way to implement and deploy SR. The alternative is SR

Solving technology problems often involves breaking a problem into multiple smaller problems, build interaction surfaces between the pieces, and glue the pieces back into a larger system. We also know every technology problem is actually a people problem--whether in the past, the

And 2am, too ...

One of the “great fears” advancing AI unlocks is that most of our jobs can, and will, be replaced by various forms of AI. Join us on this episode of the Hedge as Jonathan Mast at White Beard Strategies, Tom Ammon, and Russ White discuss whether we are likely to see a net loss,

Teaching 6 hours on data center fabrics this coming Thursday and Friday: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/de… The session is available as a recording if you are a subscriber at Safari Books Online and you register for the class.

What is Web 3.0, and how is it different from Web 2.0? What about XR, AI, and Quantum, and their relationship to Web 3.0? Jamie Schwartz joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to try to get to a solid definition of what Web 3.0 and how it impacts the future of the Internet.

Password hygiene drives IT professionals crazy–people forget their passwords, will not change them often enough, and choose weak ones. But are IT folks immune to these problems? What is the psychology behind passwords, and how do we do better? Karl Buhl joins Tom and Russ to talk

AI chatbots and image creators are all the rage right now--we are using them for everything from coding to writing books to creating short movies. One question we do not ask often enough, though, is how this impact human creators. How will these tools shape creativity and

Yet another instance of "AI gone wild." Tried to order from MegaFood supplements. Order canceled. Called to find out why. "Your account has been flagged as potential fraud. This is not something we can fix, it's all automated. There is no way to ever order from our web site

Is the CLI the best way to configure, manage, and troubleshoot routers and other networking gear? Or should we move past the CLI towards automation and (possibly even) GUI-based tools? Mark Posser joins Russ and Tom to discuss on this episode of the Hedge.

Are you stressed? Everyone in IT seems to be continuously stressed–but what can we do about it? In this "best of the Hedge," Sonia Cuff joins the Hedge to talk about stress. rule11.tech/hedge-001-rp/

Worth reading 070325 is posted. rule11.tech/worth-reading-…

I just realized ... today is the day I'm teaching "How the Internet Really Works" over at O'Reilly Media! Register here if you're interested: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/ho…

Many of us old timers (and a lot of young timers) worry about the future of networking. What if the future isn’t a technology, or even AI, but a change in focus? Mike Bushong joins Tom and Russ to argue for operations as the future of networking. rule11.tech/hedge-273-the-…

What is Jevon’s Paradox? Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ discuss how this famous paradox impact network engineering. rule11.tech/hedge-275/

I always forget until the day before for some reason ... ugh. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/ho… == This training will peer into the internal components of a router, starting with an explanation of how a router switches packets. This walk through of a switching path, in turn, will be used